CATEGORIES OF HEALTH THAT CAN BE SUFFICIENTLY SUPPORTED, & even resolved by

Nutritional Therapy

The Role of Nutrition in Optimal Health & Healing

The biggest influencers on human health at this point in human history can be distilled down to eitght core categories: 1. Environmental toxicants such as pesticides, glyphosate and heavy metals. 2. Viruses. 3. Parasites. 4. Black mould and system fungal infestations. 5. GMO foods. 6. WIFI exposure 7. Epigenetic predisposition, and 8. Stress

These environmental and therefore biological challenges cannot all be addressed by food as medicine alone. Since we are living in a supremely toxic world, with poison in our water, air, clothes, food, it’s becoming increasingly unrealistic to expect our bodies to be robust enough or the food we eat to be clean and nutrient-dense enough to provide the level of therapeutic nutrition and therapeutic intervention our bodies truly need to over-come chronic diseases, that have resulted from the assault of these environmental challenges.

Anna describes 25 years of dietary exploration from her early 20’s to mid – 40’s. During these years Anna has committed to many one-size-fits-all ways of ‘dressing her food plate’. Each offering benefits and drawbacks, but all lacking bio-individuality.

A brief dietary history: Anna was born and raised as a vegetarian, but after a health crisis, at the age of 21, Anna found that by removing gluten, milk and refined sugar from her life, she was able to regain some semblance of health and decrease chronic pain throughout her body. She committed to an anti-candida gluten-free diet in her early 20’s. Remaining gluten-free until today, but explored other ways of eating over the next 25 years to include the Hay diet, the Macrobiotic diet, the Raw food diet, the Keto (grain-free), the Paleo (grain-free). All except the Carnivore diet. Some of these diets were for one year, but most were for a number of years.

After putting these varied and often conflicting diets through their paces, Anna expanded her understanding of ‘How to eat’, ‘When to eat’, ‘How much to eat’ by training with Allessandro Ferretti in 2011; Biotyping offers five very different Biotype diets based on body-type. Biotyping triggered an appreciation for bio-individuality in Anna’s approach to nutritional therapy. But, it still did not take into appreciation the presence of 1. Environmental toxicants such as pesticides, glyphosate and heavy metals. 2. Viruses. 3. Parasites. 4. Black mould and system fungal infestations. 5. GMO foods. 6. WIFI exposure and specific 7. Epigenetic SNPs.

Anna went on to train in Genomic Wellness; Epigenetics and Nutrigenomics, offering solution-based epigenetic and nutrigenomic screening and profiling. Anna understands that there is truly no such thing as ‘A one size fits all diet’. Our genes dictate our higher nutrient yield or requirements from food, as well as potential nutrient deficiencies in the face of stress and environmental toxicants.

So even if you are a progressive health food advocate, it’s unlikely that you are serving your bio-individual needs. Which would meet to eat food that provides all the nutrient range and density to suit your genomic requirements. And if you were you would be 100% genetically fit. And when you are 100% genetically fit, you might still need extra help to remove the environmental toxicant triggers.

CATEGORIES OF HEALTH THAT CAN BE SUPPORTED & EVEN RESOLVED BY NUTRITIONAL THERAPY

Therefore, when considering categories of health that can be supported by, or even reversed by Nutritional Therapy: What if no disease was incurable?

What if disease classifications and symptoms were the results of environmental toxicants? Or just, toxicants that trigger viral remnants into action, to clear out the cellular debris. Or. environmental toxicants blocking at the receptor site, pushing antagonistic to minerals out, therefore interfering with cellular function and health.

Rather than labelling a health condition specifically, such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, or Multiple Sclerosis or Alzheimers. You might instead recognise that you have a toxicity issue, resulting from food abuse, or nutrient deprivation, or stress. Triggering lowered innate immunity and a rise in overlaying co-infections, such as a parasitic infestation, a mould infestation and/or heavy metal deposition. This confluence of factors typically results in inflammation, and even auto-immunity. By understanding and describing the mechanisms of action we broaden the treatment paradigm. Rather than typically narrowing the focus by labelling the disease.

Clear the muddy waters and remove the triggers, because this makes the biggest difference to health. Next, work out the best detoxification strategy for your epigenetic blueprint. Heal the gut, heal the blood-brain barrier, open all drainage/detoxification pathways, cleanse the body from systemic parasites, heal the lipid membrane of your cells and raise mitochondrial function.

Once you’ve done ‘the work’, healing really does then become inevitable.

“I think of health as resilience and the ability to adapt to the ever-changing environment presented to our body and mind.
However, most people live in a state of Function Illness. Not Functional Health. They get up, they go to work, but they don’t have a lot of resiliency. They pick up a lot of colds and flu, they have a lot of aches and pains, but generally, ignore them by taking painkillers. Then, usually, one major life event acts as a trigger, shifting them from Functional Illness into a Chronic Illness. At this end stage of Functional Illness, the body shifts from producing acute flamboyant symptoms such as headaches and inflammation to no longer communicating at all. The result is they will no longer pick up on the subtleties of what their body was trying to communicate to them, often many years before.
At this point, we must look for the main underlying biochemical triggers: Food sensitivities, environmental toxicants, infectious and pathogenic micro/organisms, nutritional deficiencies in the face of epigenetic predispositions and emotional triggers such as stress and emotional dysfunctional abuse (ACE’s) will also play a role.
When we are sick for a relative period of time, we begin to accept our illness as part of who we are. We are still functioning to a large extent. We’re not hospitalised, and we’re able to do limited daily activities, because we are limited by our capacity for joy, and vibrancy, and energy. But although relatively common, this is not normal. It’s not normal to be in survival mode. So don’t wait for a major life event to trigger you, and send you over the edge. ” Anna

The quality of your health is the direct result of the food you eat, the air you breathe, and the environment you have placed yourself within.

Every time you open your mouth, you are choosing to move toward health or disease.

Have you ever wondered whether your future health and the health of your children is in every mouthful, every single day.

SOME CATEGORIES OF HEALTH THAT CAN BE SUFFICIENTLY SUPPORTED, & EVEN RESOLVED BY NUTRITIONAL THERAPY

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ADRENAL FATIGUGE & MITOCHONDRIA & STRESS C.F.S, M.E & LONG-COVID NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES; Fibromyalgia, BFS ANXIETY & DEPRESSION HORMONAL HEALTH & FERTILITY AUTOIMMUNE & FOOD INTOLERANCE

Our cells are either in ENERGY MODE or CELL DEFENCE MORE. The Cell Danger Response (CDR) is the evolutionarily conserved metabolic response that protects cells and their hosts (us!) from harm. The CDR is triggered by ‘encounters with’ chemical, physical, or biological threats that exceed the cellular capacity for homoeostasis.

When CDR is triggered, the cell is in Defence Mode, mitochondria are switched off and no longer makes energy. If you have energy problems, it’s likely that your mitochondria are being forced to operate in Defense Mode for too long.

Why does turning off the mitochondria protect the body? Many viruses and bacteria hijack the mitochondria in our cells to fuel their own replication. Mitochondria are actually designed to detect when this is happening, and then to shut down energy production and even to self-destruct to prevent the microorganism from hijacking it and fueling its own replication. Ultimately, if we didn’t have the CDR, bugs and bacteria would be able to replicate and spread like wildfire!! Therefore, our bodies shut down the mitochondria and cause fatigue in the process of trying to protect us.

So, in order to achieve great energy, you will need to learn how to support your mitochondria to operate in Energy Mode, whist reducing pathogenic load and improving immune response.

“Mitochondria lie at the hub of the wheel of metabolism. Because mitochondria are also the concertmasters of innate immunity and inflammation, it makes them uniquely positioned to help the cell decide whether to devote energy and resources to ‘peacetime’ metabolism, or cellular defence.” ~ Robert Naviaux MD

Other biological systems and health imbalances affecting our energy:

Thyroid hormone function

Heavy metal loading, blocks thyroid function and mitochondrial function.

Adrenal insufficiency and hormone function

Nutrient absorption

Food Intolerances

Gut health; intestinal permeability, SIBO, parasites, candida

Adrenal and thyroid glands can be regenerated using glandular therapy. The lipid membrane housing our energy factory / the Krebs cycle and mitochondria can be re-stacked through lipid replacement therapy. Chelators can be administered for the release of toxicant analytes posing a threat to the health and function of each cell. The gastrointestinal tract can be healed, and its innate eco-system balanced. Parasites removed.

Retroviruses play a huge role in the C.F.S. & M.E. population.

Symptoms that are specific to Long COVID show up in the olfactory-epithelium. With viral persistence in the surface layer of the cells in the roof of the mouth and nasal cavity. Studies have shown that positive retesting of patients failed to create a robust protective humoral immune response, which might result in Sars-Cov-2 persistence in the G.I. tract. Viral Persistence in the Gut results in the disruption of gut/Immune axis and being responsible for Long Covid Symptoms. Initial data from 201 patients suggest that almost 70% had impairment in one or more organs four months after their initial symptoms of SARS Cov-2 infection.

Nutrients that are mechanistically relevant to the prevention from the severe symptoms resulting from COVID, are very different to those use for the resolution of Long Covid;

Active Covid

Prevention and treatment of Sars-Cov-2: https://detoxnutrition.com/protocol-and-resources/

Pertinently useful nutrients for the prevention and treatment of the virus: Selenium, in the form of Se-methyl-selenocysteine, Quercitin, zinc, Vitamin C, and D3

Long Covid

But, if someone has had COVID and is struggling with the aftermath, then we are looking more at mechanisms around NADH and Tryptophan.

A downstream consequence is that NAD is not synthesised. NAD is found in all living cells and is responsible for many signalling pathways. Without active NAD, mitochondrial energy will be instantly depleted. Depending on the individual’s health picture, we could be looking at tipping-point from a predisposition to an M.E. type picture, followed by full-blown M.E.

Imbalances that are experienced within the G.I tract and therefore our nervous system will directly affect neurochemistry via the Vagal Nerve.

It is now understood that where persistent viral loading is present, a person is leaking fuel, and subsequently then shuttling tryptophan to activate alternate pathways. It’s literally dumped in order to make up for leaking fuel tank, to make more fuel.

50% of patients can still have the virus present in the cells of their gut keeping their Mast Cells Active after contracting Sars-Cov-2.

The tryptophan steal is now activated, draining off 90% of your active tryptophan to quench the inflammation and create more energy. Subsequently, serotonin is depleted, and therefore melatonin is also depleted.

With sub-optimal levels of melatonin, the brain is inadequately equipped to detoxify the brain at night, leading to further neuronal inflammation. Chronically low circulating serotonin is not always picked up because there are different pools of serotonin in circulation and not everyone feels depressed as a result of low serotonin. However, there is an isolated pool of serotonin specifically within the brain. So depending on the individual’s health picture, we could be looking at tipping-point from low tryptophan followed by clinical depression, but this does not apply to everyone.

The trouble is, circulating serotonin is a master modulating switching system. Meaning that when circulating serotonin gets very low, your body no longer has ‘delivering signals’ to the body. The result being, the body makes up for not having the neurotransmitters by activating Mast Cells. Leading to MCAS.

Mast Cell Activation Syndrome

Releases serotonin, but also releases histamine
The immune response is ten always through the mast cells
When you have dysfunctional mast cells these overreact to all sorts of stimuli, including infections.
When you have MCAS, then you become ill from the infection and then ill again after the infection from the effects on your MCAS cells.
Long COVID and MCAS are one of the same, the go together.
Symptoms os MCAS: insomnia, anxiety, rashes, itchy skin, poor healing, palpitations, shortness of breath .. the list goes on.
Exercise can trigger the release of histamine for MCAS patients. They pay for the exercise later by feeling wiped out!
Ehlers Danlos syndrome is a downstream consequence of MCAS.

Prevalence and predisposition

Depending on the predisposition of the person, stabilisation of Long COVID can be anywhere between a few weeks or months.

Cardiomyopathy recover can take 3-6 months or longer.
Antiphospholipid antibody + POTS, can 6-12 months or even longer.
Energy deficiency or mitochondrial myopathy is a spectrum and varies. Where complex Health Conditions are present, there is usually viral related damage, as well as a chemical component, and then a second chemical component subsequent to the chemical deficiency.
Contracting a minor infection can result in Long COVID 3-4 months after contracting Sars-Cov-2, as this tips ATP.
Intense exercise can result in Long COVID 3-4 months after contracting Sars-Cov-2, as this also pushes ATP.
R.A multiplies the prevalence of Long COVID When a person develops Long COVID.
The virus does not necessarily persist as a viable virus but instead initiates genetic changes.

Neurological conditions such as Benign Fasciculation Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease, even Autism, Aspergers and compromised neurological development in our children are sadly all becoming the new norm. These modern-day diseases can be explained by the ever-increasing environmental burden and challenges that we all face today: toxic heavy metal pollution, glyphosate, flouride, GMOs’ and then throw in WIFI to whip up a perfect storm!

Combined, these environmental triggers unleash viruses and retroviruses embedded within our DNA as well as presenting the perfect environment for co-infections to thrive such as fungal infections and parasites.

Correct nutritional therapy and supplementation are invaluable when introduced as a tool for therapeutic intervention:

However, it is now possible to identify the early onset of some neurological conditions to include dementia such as Alzheimer’s Disease, and with early identification provide a valuable opportunity to engage in the many nutritional and lifestyle choices available. With early identification together with early nutritional and lifestyle intervention, we can help to avert, resolve, or just prevent further deterioration from many neurological diseases.

The pioneering work of Daniel Amen and his brain scans show that those who are susceptible to Alzheimer disease MUST take their diet seriously. Sugar, wheat and toxicity levels alongside lifestyle choices are always the main culprits of neurological degeneration.

1. Diet is primary, but the correct choices need to start in childhood.

2. Supplementation alongside rigorous supplementation and dietary intervention can be applied in later years, or even once dementia is setting-in to slow the pace of decline.

3. Commitment to diet, supplement, and lifestyle is paramount to the success of any programme once dementia is.

Epigenetics:

Then we have gene testing, and screening for the APOE4 & 3 genes, as well as MTHFR, MTRR, COMT, transsulfuration, and BH4 cycle genes. Understanding your epigenetic predispositions will support your brain back to health.

Heavy metals and the brain

We also have a great deal of science and a strong correlation between the toxic loading of certain heavy metals and neuro-degenerative diseases. Therefore keeping our brains as well as bodies free from toxic levels of heavy metals is paramount when supporting neurological health

It’s hard to know exactly what heavy metal content exists within each of our brains unless we dissect the actual brain after passing. However, we are able to measure heavy metal burden released into the urine when challenged by a sulphur donation agent. Signifying theoretical total body burden in terms of reasonable or unreasonable levels excreted via this drainage pathway when challenged. (The DMSA Challenge Test has been mentioned within a previous post.)

But firstly let’s talk about the Glymphatic System and what we do know about how this protects our brain. The glymphatic system was only recently discovered within the University of Virginia in the US.

Extracellular matrix and the glymphatic system

The Glymphatic System clears metabolic waste from the brain. It does this at night during the hours when we are asleep. First, at night the brain shrinks by 60% of its size in order to make room for the flow of the lymph (Glymphatic System) around it.

Lymph flows along the arteries, bathing our neurons with nutrients whilst removing metabolic waste and then flows along the veins before exiting. A vital system for health which is protected by good amounts of sleep each night.

Unfortunately, not everyone has a healthy functioning Glymphatic System. As it is easily compromised when challenged by toxicity such as heavy metals, but brain injuries can also damage this system.

Clearly, a damaged Glymphatic System can become a chicken and egg scenario since heavy metals damage the Glymphatic System, which in turn a compromises our ability to detoxify heavy metals.

If an individual is predisposed to carrying an increased toxicity load of heavy metals, predisposed by their genetic makeup, and then experiences a brain injury this can be a very tough situation indeed. When this set up arises, every attempt to live a clean life, integrating detoxification techniques on a regular basis with good quality sleep also critical to this cleansing system. Since we know that brain injuries incur an increased risk of neurological issues.

Dr Bredesen is an internationally recognised expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases who says that the development of AD, is all about biological signalling. And that we can influence this biological signalling with food choices, lifestyle choices and by optimising levels of hormones and nutrients. Some examples of the changes that need to be made are:

1. Desist Sugar & alcohol in-take where the APOE double allele deletions are present.

2. Desist wheat consumption.

2. Diminish infections, destroying our brain.

3. Decrease the build-up of Alpha-β peptide in the brain.

4. Increase BDNF (Brain Derived Nerve Factor)

5. Increase NGF (Nerve Growth Factor)

6. Decrease homocysteine.

7. Build synapses

8. Decrease Inflammation & Inhibit NF-kB

9. Increase GSH (glutathione)

10. Increase antioxidants

11. Decrease Iron (& decrease copper) increase zinc

12. Increase GABA

13. Decrease NMDA

14. Optimise hormones

15. Increase vitamin D

16. Increase Mitochondrial function

17. Increase Mitochondrial protection

Dr Bredesen then introduced us to the ‘roof with 36 holes’ metaphor, with each one of them needing to be filled in order to achieve the best outcome, and even reverse Alzheimer’s Disease. Every one of the 36 holes can be tended to through nutrients, diet and lifestyle choices.

Nutritional habits have a significant effect on both male and female fertility. Maintaining normal body mass prevents infertility which may result from ovulatory disorders. Being underweight but, to a larger degree, overweight or obese enhance the risks of infertility.

Statistics show that the number of couples experiencing fertility problems has been on the increase for 30+ years. Despite the advancements in fertility nutrition, sperm counts are dropping by up to 50%, sperm abnormalities are increasing, more women are experiencing miscarriages and approximately 30% of couples are told that they have ‘unexplained infertility’.

Although this is shocking news, here is a great deal that can be done to improve your fertility and chance of conceiving. But it has to start with understanding the mechanism behind fertility issues.

Changes to your diet and nutritional needs, the addition of correct supplements and altering your lifestyle are the first three milestones.

Vitamin B12 deficiency and its supplementation seem to be important in the prevention of early miscarriages.
Certain fats can help balance hormone levels
Some foods can improve the quality of a woman’s eggs
Zinc can increase sperm count and reduce miscarriages
Selenium and folate also act beneficially on sperm quality
Antioxidants can help protect against birth defects and miscarriage
Some vitamins increase sperm quality and prevent clumping or sticking together of sperm
Other nutrients can increase the flow of blood to the uterus, which helps to provide a more fertile environment for the embryo to grow and develop
Free radical processes play an important role in the development of male factor infertility

Beyond this, it is just as important to make lifestyle changes. Lifestyle choices and stress can all have an impact on your chance of conceiving.

It takes approximately 3 – 4 months for both the egg and the sperm to develop and mature, therefore we recommend that couples follow a nutritional programme for the same amount of time, prior to trying to conceive, as this provides the best chance of conception.

Endocrine and hormone issues can be easily identified through the comprehensive DUTCH test. Since our endocrine systems work in an orchestra, a comprehensive hormone test helps us to appreciate the full spectrum of our hormonal ranges, and support them accordingly. The DUTCH test helps to identify your 3 estrogens, their levels, and their ratios, before up-regulating or down-regulating estrogen metabolism, as necessary.

Adrenal sufficiency or insufficiency, as well as liver function, plays a role.

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Other biological systems and health imbalances affecting our hormones and fertility:

Heavy metal loading blocking mitochondrial function and fertility.
Glyphosate and xenoestrogens exposure
EMF exposure

Whether you are just starting out on your fertility journey, are having trouble conceiving, are experiencing recurrent miscarriages or want to optimise your chances of IVF success, there is much that can be done via nutritional therapy.

History has never before experienced the prevalence and spectrum of Autoimmune diseases that we are fighting today. One in four people in the western world are battling with an autoimmune disease, and that classified through diagnosis. Not the real figure, of people just on the spectrum – which might in truth be everyone.

Whatever the true figures are, Autoimmune Disease as a 21st-century disease is a humanitarian crisis It is clearly correlated with the explosion in environmental toxins over the past 50-80 years.

Even dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease are now categorised as autoimmune diseases and are a synonym to inflammatory triggers. Autoimmunity an inflammatory response in the body are the same entity, driven by the exact same mechanisms. What it’s not, is the body just trying to kill itself for the sake, attacking its own cells. The body is choosing to attack itself in order to stay alive since the body with ALWAYS do the very best it can in every given situation. We must learn to look at the situation that we are presenting TO the body if we expect to find real answers.

We see our loved ones lose their memories, and we witness the cognitive decline of those genetically predisposed to autoimmunity as a result of environmental toxicants, life-long intestinal permeability, and low-grade chronic inflammation. This is a tragedy, not because it exists, but because with a degree of self-responsibility, it can be reversed, but too many people are prone to in-action.

Nutrient Density Vs Nutrient Deficiency

Nutrient deficiency through our food is a very real reason why so many people do not feel well today. To start our healing journey, need to address where we get our nutrient density; where we get our minerals and amino acids from, in order to nourish the body and the brain. Realistically, we must understand that even when we consume a high yield of superfoods, due to environmental toxicants and writhe pathogenic loading, just a few basic supplements in addition to a balanced diet can make an enormous difference to our total health.

The basic recommendations are: Remove the toxins, re-mineralise the body and strengthen the immune system.

The trouble is, we are up against a tsunami of 21st-century nutrient deficiencies. For instance, studies show that when comparing the results from a bowl of spinach tested in the 1950s for nutrient density and then comparing those figures with a bowl of spinach tested today in 2019, results show that we’d have to eat 43 bowls of spinach today to equal one from the 1950s. That is one of 100’s of 1000’s of studies, illustrating the shocking proportion of nutrient deficiency in modern food.

Triggers

There are four big triggers that have been studied and know are problematic to the progenisis of autoimmunity. One of them being food, with gluten being a part of this conversation. One of the triggers being infectious micro-organisms, whether that be a bacteria, viral, parasitic, and even some types of infectious micro-organisms, like a prion. Another trigger being chemical exposure. And the last trigger is a nutritional deficiencies.

The most predominant categories that outweigh the rest, in autoimmune cases are viral; proteus morabulous, Epstein-Barr, and yeast or fungal infections; black mould stachybotrys, aspergillus, cyptosporidium which slowly poison people over time triggering our immunity, and then bacterial issues.

The demographic, in terms of where we live on the planet, will determine some way toward the causation of each autoimmune condition.

The way we choose to eat also influences our immune system and relationship with our immune system. So when choosing to eat high sugar, high carbohydrate and a low nutrient-dense diet that’s full of glutens we will feed a yeast overgrowth in the body and endogenous mycotoxin production, responding to exogenous toxins in the form of a black mould situation in our environment.

Hygiene Hypothesis

Clearly immunologically speaking, we’re seeing an increase of incidents of autoimmune disease in recent years where we didn’t see this before over-time. Observing trends in our culture over time allows us to trackback, and by doing so research has come up with some really nice theories. One of these theories is called the Hygiene Hypothesis.

The Hygiene Hypothesis discusses cleanliness, and how humans have become too clean. And in doing so, we have removed ourselves from exposure to things like bacteriophages, good bacteria and other microorganisms. In removing ourselves from good bacteria and microorganisms our immune systems have shifted into a different gear altogether, over time. Meaning, they have become too lazy. No longer do our immune systems have the opportunity to be challenged on a day to day basis. The result being, when something very real comes along to threaten our immunity, our immune system over-responds.

The Hygiene Hypothesis considers adaptation and the adaptability of our immune systems. And that health comes from our ability to adapt to different environments. It does not come from living in a super stellar environment.

Adaptation only happens when we expose ourselves to pathogens and bacteria on a regular basis, allowing our innate immunity to strengthen. Adaptation does not happen when we are separate ourselves from the environment. Since the cleaner we are, the less our body works.

The Petri Dish

They took several Petri dishes, with different groups to assess the efficacy of hand sanitizers. One group used hand sanitizers to innoculate the Petri environment, the other did not. Results showed that the Petri dishes that were inoculated best were those that used the hand sanitisers. But with an interesting twist. Those Petri dishes that were inoculated the best also grew the most pathogenic bacteria!.

GMO’s

Genetically altered and splicing of grains came in around the 1990s. In 1994 a new law was passed, called ‘the genetically modified organisms law’. Foods that were created thereafter fell under that law. Meaning that all grains bought today are subject to the misrepresentation of this law. You can buy wheat, kamut, spelt and other grains today that are organic but are still the worst kind of genetically altered grain. The new law back in 1994 one a Nobel Peace Prize, when they took a head-high plant and cut it down to knee height, and were then able to yield eight times as much as it did before. However, there was a drawback. This new genetically modified grain would tear tiny holes in the guy and cross the membrane through the cell walls. This way it would enter the bloodstream, and in doing so, affect the brain. The downstream consequence has led to studies being done by the NIH on Bipolar and Schizophrenia, induced by wheat consumption. Results show that Bipolar and Schizophrenia were due to chemical mutagenesis, genetic alteration. Their genes were literally radiated. The majority of GMO foods are actually pesticide producers. Meaning the plant actually produces the pesticide itself, so there is no longer a need to spray it. When the bugs eat the plant, it will split its stomach into multiple parts and bug will die. The plant continues to live, and the poison continues to live in it too. The trouble is, you eat it. You think it’s food, but really it’s poison and it’s slowly killing your brain and it’s killing your gut flora.

NUTRIGENOMICS FOOD ALLERGY, SENSITIVITY & INTOLERANCE ENVIRONMENTAL TOXIICANTS & TOXICANT DRIVEN DISEASES SYSTEMIC PARASITES CANDIDA MOULD INFESTATIONS VIRUSES, RETROVIRUSES, CYTOMEGALOVIRUS

The Role of Nutrition in Gene Expression

Gene Regulation by Nutrition
The nutrients we consume can impact gene expression and the way our genes are regulated. Gene expression can be altered by the environment of a cell. Environmental factors include lifestyle choices and nutrition. Nutrition can modify the cellular processes inside our body for better or worse. Nutrients and vitamins lessen the severity of disease via targeted treatment plans.

Nutritional Science and Gene Expression

Nutrigenomics is a branch of nutritional science that looks at the interaction of nutrition and genes with regard to the treatment and prevention of disease. By using signalling pathways, vitamins and nutrients influence the rate at which DNA to RNA transcription occurs.
DNA methylation is the process of adding a methyl group to a DNA molecule. Methyl groups affect the interaction of DNA and protein-producing molecules, and therefore they can activate or silence genes. This is extremely exciting news!
We now know that 5-8% of our DNA or genetic material is actually retroviral DNA. What this means is, when retrovirus segments are triggered in the body, the retrovirus then uses an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to make RNA into DNA, becoming part of our own genetic material inside the cell. Now we have pro-viral DNA that turns on our cell. Researches have found that when retroviral DNA pieces are activated that it leads to autoimmune illness, neurological disease, and cancer.
Stressors trigger the re-activation of retrovirus segments embedded in our DNA. Whilst certain dietary components silence them. Methylation is the biochemical process (resulting from moving methyl groups) that can silence parts of our DNA. Dietary methyl components include folate, polyphenols and flavonoids in green tea, and phytoestrogen.
If you are undermethylated, by not having enough methylated folate or methyl B12 of SAM-e, then your body is not able to silence these segments of DNA, triggering retroviral exposures.
Maintaining health and preventing chronic disease is not just about taking a multivitamin and eating healthy organic food, which is vitally important. But it’s also about keeping infections under control and our immune system strong, not allowing retroviruses to be expressed. Health is about being being resilient to all of the pathogens that we encounter in our environment.

Gluten Sensitivity & Gluten-Free Foods

We have always had a degree of gluten sensitivity, but just seeing it more than we did 30-40 years ago. Today we use a greater quantity of grain in our diet because it is cheap to grow and easy to hybridize. We make GMO grain, which has infiltrated even the organic crops sold as organic today. Ultimately grain is not nutritious, but a cheap way to feed millions of people upon the earth. In addition, suppliers of grain add a group of enzymes to grain as preservatives. This family of enzymes is called MITGLU (microbial transglutaminase). MITGLU is a bacterial slime, a preservative agent, typically added as a gluten substitute to Gluten-Free grains. Many gluten-free foods are produced with this enzyme. What’s more, research has shown that this enzyme can actually call Celiac Disease and other forms of autoimmune disease, even in the absence of gluten. For this reason, if you are gluten intolerant, actually eating NO grain is the better option. Also choosing to avoid all packaged and processed foods, as this will also contain MITGLU.

Examples of fast-food that contain MITGLU: processed sandwich chicken – is not real chicken, but contains some MITGLU to glue it together. Hot-dogs contain MITGLU. Every fast-food chain used MITGLU MacDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken, basically anywhere that the meat looks identical to the picture, and from one outlet to the next. MITGLU is also found in dairy, used as a thickening agent. As well as a preservative fo cheese, and butter and dairy-free alternative options. So, to avoid it the best thing to do is eat real food, and do not buy processed foods.

The link between MITGLU and autoimmune diseases is not based on the mechanism called ‘Molecular Mimicry’, or, studies do not show this. The mechanism understood to be involved in the autoimmune instigated MITGLU enzyme activation goes further than molecular mimicry. MITGLU activates a specialised receptor in the gut called the Toll-like receptor, the outcome of which is chronic and sustained inflammation.

The Gluten-sensitive individual will be born with the set of genes that predisposes them toward gluten-sensitivity. Therefore they will be at risk of developing this condition from birth. Therefore if you have the genes, and you expose yourself for long enough, you’re going to accumulate an inflammatory response that ends up making you sick. Whether it’s a decade or two decades or more. The ultimate manifestation of gluten-sensitivity will be multifactorial. It is reliant on other environmental factors and subject to how healthy you try to keep yourself.

Ultimately, Gluten sensitivity is a state of genetics. If you feed it incorrectly it grows and comes on quicker. And, this is where infections may also play a role. The person who used to eat sandwiches, bowls of pasta, and feel just fine, then picks up a major infection and from that time they are no longer able to tolerate bread, or grains, or any cereals. This is because the infection broke their immune system. It broke it down so that it could no longer tolerate the gluten. By contrast,

Gluten Sensitivity & Epigenetics

The Gluten-sensitive individual will be born with the set of genes that predisposes them toward gluten-sensitivity. Therefore they will be at risk of developing this condition from birth. Therefore if you have the genes, and you expose yourself for long enough, you’re going to accumulate an inflammatory response that ends up making you sick. Whether it’s a decade or two decades or more. The ultimate manifestation of gluten-sensitivity will be multifactorial. It is reliant on other environmental factors and subject to how healthy you try to keep yourself.

Ultimately, Gluten sensitivity is a state of genetics. If you feed it incorrectly it grows and comes on quicker. And, this is where infections, mould in the environment and toxicants in the environment play a role. The person who used to eat sandwiches, bowls of pasta, and feel just fine, then picks up a major infection, or have chronic black mould exposure, or move house next to a farm where they spray chemicals every day, and from that time they are no longer able to tolerate bread, or grains, or any cereals. This is because the additional ‘challenge agent’ broke their immune system. It broke it down so that it could no longer tolerate the gluten. By contrast, before the immune system was just trying to adapt around those exposures and dong a decent job while keeping the host healthy, without making they chronically sick. But, the infection becomes the tipping point, to low-grade inflammation. The proverbial ‘straw to break the camels back!’

Gluten Sensitivity & Symptoms

For every one person that gets gut symptoms when they eat wheat, there are eight people that don’t. They get brain symptoms, or joint symptoms, or skin symptoms, or ovary symptoms, or testicular symptoms. They don’t get gut symptoms, they continue to eat pizza and feel just fine. Maybe they’re a little tired afterwards or a little bloated, nothing too bad!

Food sensitivities or intolerance don’t have to show up on the same day as eating the food. The next day, you may get a rash, or a migraine, ringing in your ears or your vision may be a little off. Or your joints might be inflamed. The reality check is that EVERY person has some foods that they are eating that aren’t good for them. And don’t know it! Wheat is the most common of these intolerances. There are 24,000 studies completed on gluten intolerance. Many of them out of the Mayo Clinic on reversing cardiomyopathy. Meaning the reversing of cardiomyopathy on a gluten-free diet. Some of them were celiac, but some of them are not.

Biopsy also show issues with the liver; NAFLD and/or congested and need plenty of support. with 100% reversal of the liver on a gluten-free diet. A 3 year old child with tumour on her eye, thought to be Kaposi’s sarcoma that comes from HIV, but reversed within 2 weeks on a gluten-free diet. And within two months it was gone. My own son has developed multiple cysts in his face and arm. He was already gluten-free, from birth, and I was gluten-free for 9 years before he was born. However, is was the cross-reactive food, with gluten, that were causing the cysts. 2 weeks on the right supplementation and the cysts the size of large marbles in his little face diminished. Within 2 months, they were gone.

Other biological systems and health imbalances affecting our relationship with food:

Gall-bladder may need to be cleaned from toxic bile and gall-grit / gallstones.
NAFLD and/or congested hepatic pathways
Adrenal insufficiency.
Molecular mimicry: The immune system may be required to reset its association with protein chains – specific to auto-immune reactions.
The gastrointestinal tract may need healing – intestinal permeability.
The blood-brain-barrier (BBB) may need healing.
Once systems are operating at their optimum, sensitivities are expected to resolve rather than just palliated.

‘THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A HEALTHY DIET, ONLY AN APPROPRIATE ONE’

This is why every new client second consultation is a Substance Testing session.

We substance test for up to 50 foods provides clarity on your tolerance levels for all food groups and combinations of food groups. These foods are best understood as LOW or HIGH tolerance, rather than ‘INTOLERANT’ or ‘ALLERGENIC’ which they may or may not be. Since there is a myriad of reasons why someone may have a LOW tolerance for food.

Poor Bile Flow, Low Pancreatic Enzymes, Fatty Liver, Clogged Helpatic Pathways, Gut Inflammation, Abuse of Grains, a Virus or Fungal infestations in the gut, Methyl Mercury in the gut etc. The list really does go on.

SO BE A DETECTIVE: Searching for clues and joining the dots, within your tolerance session can be powerfully suggestive. These clues represent your health. Since they represent exactly how your biological systems are functioning – when interfacing with the foods tested.

As an example, we can have low tolerance to fatty foods, or low tolerance to grains, or low tolerance to foods from the deadly nightshade family, or perhaps sugary foods. Our tolerance to each food group provides powerful clues as to what lies beneath.

Therefore, what is a truly healthy diet, when you cannot convert beta-carotene from carrots to vitamin A, or make use of fats, due to gall-bladder congestion?

It would be presumptuous to assume that what you consider to be a ‘healthy diet’ is the correct diet for you.

MAST CELL ACTIVATION SYNDROME, MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY, CELL DANGER RESPONSE SYNDROME – WHAT DO THESE ALL HAVE IN COMMON?

The average woman uses 12 different personal care products, exposing them to about 168 chemicals per day, and then the average man uses six different personal care products daily, exposing them to about 85 chemicals per day.

And when it comes to health, prevention is always so much easier than cure. To prevent serious health conditions, rather than turn them around.

Today, we see a stark intersection between our environment and the rise in chronic health illnesses. Our polluted world is the trigger for our growing infant mortality, childhood cancers, childhood developmental delay. Toxic metals, flouride, glyphosate, and fertilizers have a synergistic effect and can affect neurodevelopment and can affect our children.

Environmental pollution starts in the womb, with the maternal-fetal transfer. Maybe mum has amalgams or high stores of lead in her tissue. The baby then receives the Hep-B vaccine at birth – full of aluminium. Formula milk is full of glyphosate and GMOs, perhaps combined with unfiltered water with heavy metals such as lead and hormones recycled from the pill. The combination of toxicants from conception paints a perfect storm, where 1 + 1 toxic ant does not equal two.

One environmental toxicant, heavy metal, for instance, can be a neurotoxin, it can be a carcinogen, it can be an endocrine disruptor. toxicants are not mutually exclusive, and that’s why they are so dangerous to our health.

Toxicants

Carcinogens cause cancer
Mutagens mutate the DNA and can also lead to cancer, but affect the genetic expression.
Teratogens are going to affect unborn babies.
Allergens have an overexcitable response to the immune system leading to Mast Cell Activation Syndrome and have a hard time with the environmental pollutants. In this way, some of the environmental pollutants actually become allergens in the body as well. Meaning people can start off with a heavy metal burden, but they can also have the heavy metal allergy, and that can just create a cascade of more severe symptoms.
Neurotoxins affect our nervous system, our cranial nerves, our peripheral nerves. When neurotoxins have a strong affinity with these nerves they create a lot of havoc.
Endocrine disruptors are toxicants that mimic our natural hormones. Xenoestrogens are endocrine disruptors that look like estrogen which have an estrogen stimulating effect on the body and can lead to what we’re seeing as estrogen dominance and estrogen-positive cancers. As well as early-onset puberty as well as infertility at the other end of the spectrum. Endocrine disruptors have a big role in our health.
Biotoxins are produced by microbes and pathogens. Biotoxins + environmental toxins in combination together create a dramatic and overwhelming effect on our organs of elimination and so we have to look at both when we consider exogenous toxicant loading in perspective with the individual pathogenic loading and endogenous biotoxin production. Since this will have everything to do with whether the client is able to open their pathways of elimination successfully, or not.
Mycotoxins come from fungus. Mycotoxins have an overwhelming effect on our body, because they have to also be metabolised by the same pathways as toxicants: hepatocyte and gallbladder.

When the body is unable to eliminate these environmental burdens the body becomes sluggish. But the body is wise, it’s not going to allow a lot of these environmental toxicants to just flow freely in the blood. We usually store them, and that’s why they’re hard to identify and also to eliminate. We sequester them so they don’t damage more vital organs even though they can be affected, by we can sequester them to scar tissue or fibrosis or adipose tissue, like fat cells, or things like calcium deposits or lipomas.

Weight can be another mechanism of environmental toxicant protection since the body trying to store and protect vital organs from environmental exposure.

And then we have bones. Heavy metals, especially lead is stored in bone leading to osteoprosis.

Heavy metals damage our central nervous system.

Heavy metals damage our cells and cell membranes, triggering the Cell Danger Response (CDR), creating a whole paradigm of why people are chronically ill and how the cells get threatened. The CDR typically perpetuates and prolongs chronic illness, because it shuts down the mitochondria, keeping the body starved from energy causing the person to feel really sick and fatigued.

Staying healthy means to prevent disease as well as to reverse disease. So really, in order to successfully stay healthy, we need to get rid of a lot of these environmental toxicants. Considering our epigenetic profile if you have this completed already helps to understand exactly where you may be getting stuck with detoxification. If you haven’t completed a genomic wellness test, and you have a chronic condition then you should do so right away. If you are thinking of working with Anna, please contact her first for her recommended genomic profile panels.

There are different phases of detoxification for excreting different toxins and toxicants. Phase I detoxification such as our CYP450 enzymes, or Phase II such as acetylation, sulfation, glucuronidation, oxidation and others allows us to take something that’s toxic and process it. Phase 3 takes this journey a stage further.

So health is a lot about getting the routes of elimination moving. Getting the bile moving, opening the bowel, healing the gut, diversifying the microbiota, strengthening the blood-brain barrier, cleaning the brain, opening the extracellular matrix, getting the interstitial tissue flowing and moving. Coffee enemas (if suitable).

In a nutshell …

Toxicants in the form of heavy metals block mitochondrial function, activate CDR and diminish energy production.

Toxicants lower our thresh-hold to stress, by re-wiring the nervous system through limbic kindling.

Toxicants rewire our immunological responses to stress leading Mast Cell Activation, and an allergic response to the toxicant. This further perpetuates an inability to deal with stressors.

Toxicants rewire our limbic system to stress, fusing our nervous systems to a wider range of stressors such as electrical stress – the back-drop to our modern age.

Toxicants affect our mood, via the CNS and serotonin production system, inflaming our gut, joints and even brain.

Toxicants can all be identified with the right choice of functional panels with a focus on identifying body burden toxicant levels and the immune system’s response to toxicants. Symptoms can then be ameliorated and even resolved with correctly identified nutritional therapy, supplement, and lifestyle intervention.

Compliance is paramount for the success of this type of comprehensive programme.

Nutritional Therapy practically applies the latest theories and research in nutrition and health sciences to individuals seeking to manage chronic disease or promote optimum health.

Nutritional Therapy is a wholistic wellness strategy.

Wholistic wellness strategies require that you take responsibility for your health and symptoms. This is not about palliating symptoms. Nutritional Therapy is ‘not’ for those expecting quick health fixes.

Nutritional Therapy is a Life investment strategy, that will serve you for years to come.

CATEGORIES OF HEALTH THAT CAN BE SUFFICIENTLY SUPPORTED, & even resolved by

Nutritional Therapy

The Role of Nutrition in Optimal Health & Healing

Anna describes 25 years of dietary exploration from her early 20’s to mid – 40’s. During these years Anna has committed to many one-size-fits-all ways of ‘dressing her food plate’. Each offering benefits and drawbacks, but all lacking bio-individuality.

CATEGORIES OF HEALTH THAT CAN BE SUPPORTED & EVEN RESOLVED BY NUTRITIONAL THERAPY

Therefore, when considering categories of health that can be supported by, or even reversed by Nutritional Therapy: What if no disease was incurable?

Once you’ve done ‘the work’, healing really does then become inevitable.

“I think of health as resilience and the ability to adapt to the ever-changing environment presented to our body and mind.

SOME CATEGORIES OF HEALTH THAT CAN BE SUFFICIENTLY SUPPORTED, & EVEN RESOLVED BY NUTRITIONAL THERAPY

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When CDR is triggered, the cell is in Defence Mode, mitochondria are switched off and no longer makes energy. If you have energy problems, it’s likely that your mitochondria are being forced to operate in Defense Mode for too long.

So, in order to achieve great energy, you will need to learn how to support your mitochondria to operate in Energy Mode, whist reducing pathogenic load and improving immune response.

Other biological systems and health imbalances affecting our energy:

Thyroid hormone function

Heavy metal loading, blocks thyroid function and mitochondrial function.

Adrenal insufficiency and hormone function

Nutrient absorption

Food Intolerances

Gut health; intestinal permeability, SIBO, parasites, candida

Retroviruses play a huge role in the C.F.S. & M.E. population.

Nutrients that are mechanistically relevant to the prevention from the severe symptoms resulting from COVID, are very different to those use for the resolution of Long Covid;

Active Covid

Prevention and treatment of Sars-Cov-2: https://detoxnutrition.com/protocol-and-resources/

Pertinently useful nutrients for the prevention and treatment of the virus: Selenium, in the form of Se-methyl-selenocysteine, Quercitin, zinc, Vitamin C, and D3

Long Covid

But, if someone has had COVID and is struggling with the aftermath, then we are looking more at mechanisms around NADH and Tryptophan.

Imbalances that are experienced within the G.I tract and therefore our nervous system will directly affect neurochemistry via the Vagal Nerve.

It is now understood that where persistent viral loading is present, a person is leaking fuel, and subsequently then shuttling tryptophan to activate alternate pathways. It’s literally dumped in order to make up for leaking fuel tank, to make more fuel.

50% of patients can still have the virus present in the cells of their gut keeping their Mast Cells Active after contracting Sars-Cov-2.

The tryptophan steal is now activated, draining off 90% of your active tryptophan to quench the inflammation and create more energy. Subsequently, serotonin is depleted, and therefore melatonin is also depleted.

Mast Cell Activation Syndrome

Prevalence and predisposition

Depending on the predisposition of the person, stabilisation of Long COVID can be anywhere between a few weeks or months.

Combined, these environmental triggers unleash viruses and retroviruses embedded within our DNA as well as presenting the perfect environment for co-infections to thrive such as fungal infections and parasites.

Correct nutritional therapy and supplementation are invaluable when introduced as a tool for therapeutic intervention:

The pioneering work of Daniel Amen and his brain scans show that those who are susceptible to Alzheimer disease MUST take their diet seriously. Sugar, wheat and toxicity levels alongside lifestyle choices are always the main culprits of neurological degeneration.

1. Diet is primary, but the correct choices need to start in childhood.

2. Supplementation alongside rigorous supplementation and dietary intervention can be applied in later years, or even once dementia is setting-in to slow the pace of decline.

3. Commitment to diet, supplement, and lifestyle is paramount to the success of any programme once dementia is.

Epigenetics:

Then we have gene testing, and screening for the APOE4 & 3 genes, as well as MTHFR, MTRR, COMT, transsulfuration, and BH4 cycle genes. Understanding your epigenetic predispositions will support your brain back to health.

Heavy metals and the brain

We also have a great deal of science and a strong correlation between the toxic loading of certain heavy metals and neuro-degenerative diseases. Therefore keeping our brains as well as bodies free from toxic levels of heavy metals is paramount when supporting neurological health

But firstly let’s talk about the Glymphatic System and what we do know about how this protects our brain. The glymphatic system was only recently discovered within the University of Virginia in the US.

Extracellular matrix and the glymphatic system

The Glymphatic System clears metabolic waste from the brain. It does this at night during the hours when we are asleep. First, at night the brain shrinks by 60% of its size in order to make room for the flow of the lymph (Glymphatic System) around it.

Lymph flows along the arteries, bathing our neurons with nutrients whilst removing metabolic waste and then flows along the veins before exiting. A vital system for health which is protected by good amounts of sleep each night.

Unfortunately, not everyone has a healthy functioning Glymphatic System. As it is easily compromised when challenged by toxicity such as heavy metals, but brain injuries can also damage this system.

Clearly, a damaged Glymphatic System can become a chicken and egg scenario since heavy metals damage the Glymphatic System, which in turn a compromises our ability to detoxify heavy metals.

1. Desist Sugar & alcohol in-take where the APOE double allele deletions are present.

2. Desist wheat consumption.

2. Diminish infections, destroying our brain.

3. Decrease the build-up of Alpha-β peptide in the brain.

4. Increase BDNF (Brain Derived Nerve Factor)

5. Increase NGF (Nerve Growth Factor)

6. Decrease homocysteine.

7. Build synapses

8. Decrease Inflammation & Inhibit NF-kB

9. Increase GSH (glutathione)

10. Increase antioxidants

11. Decrease Iron (& decrease copper) increase zinc

12. Increase GABA

13. Decrease NMDA

14. Optimise hormones

15. Increase vitamin D

16. Increase Mitochondrial function

17. Increase Mitochondrial protection

Dr Bredesen then introduced us to the ‘roof with 36 holes’ metaphor, with each one of them needing to be filled in order to achieve the best outcome, and even reverse Alzheimer’s Disease. Every one of the 36 holes can be tended to through nutrients, diet and lifestyle choices.

Nutritional habits have a significant effect on both male and female fertility. Maintaining normal body mass prevents infertility which may result from ovulatory disorders. Being underweight but, to a larger degree, overweight or obese enhance the risks of infertility.

Although this is shocking news, here is a great deal that can be done to improve your fertility and chance of conceiving. But it has to start with understanding the mechanism behind fertility issues.

Changes to your diet and nutritional needs, the addition of correct supplements and altering your lifestyle are the first three milestones.

Vitamin B12 deficiency and its supplementation seem to be important in the prevention of early miscarriages.

Certain fats can help balance hormone levels

Some foods can improve the quality of a woman’s eggs

Zinc can increase sperm count and reduce miscarriages

Selenium and folate also act beneficially on sperm quality

Antioxidants can help protect against birth defects and miscarriage

Some vitamins increase sperm quality and prevent clumping or sticking together of sperm

Other nutrients can increase the flow of blood to the uterus, which helps to provide a more fertile environment for the embryo to grow and develop

Free radical processes play an important role in the development of male factor infertility